Subject: Re: dump and density
To: Chrischen <cchen@nougat.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/24/2001 22:09:10
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:23:28AM -0700, Chrischen wrote:
> I've inherited a dds3 drive, and after finding an appropriate enclosure, I've
> got it attached to my sparc; The kernel sees everything, and mt tells me the
> correct density code. I'm using 125m (12GB) tapes, but upon running dump I see
> that dump does not know the density of my tape, or, I'm guessing, the length
> of it. Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to set the -d and -s flags
> appropriately for each backup? 

Yes, you have to use -d and -s for each dump.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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